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Can you imagine a future where an exascale computer discovers new drugs faster, cheaper and with lower failure rates than today?

Have you ever been afraid of new illnesses? Don’t worry. A healthier and safer future could be around the corner thanks to the artificial intelligence (AI). In fact, the ExCAPE (Exascale Compound Activity Prediction) project – an initiative supported by Horizon 2020 in the frame of Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) programme – is developing a new way to quickly discover the right medicine using machine learning forms of AI.

Researchers are focusing on algorithms for large-scale machine learning, a field of computer science that gives computers the ability to learn from data and act without being explicitly programmed. In the past decade, machines learning has been used to realise self-driving cars, speech recognition and smarter web searches. From social media’s targeted ads to online financial transactions and security, everyday we use machine learning systems without knowing it.

Supercomputers will boost drug development by greatly speeding up the design of new molecules. Credits: via flickr.com.

In the health industry, small-scale machine learning has been trialled to discover new drugs and test combinations of compounds. Due to the huge number of chemical permutations, machine learning helps to reduce the high costs and time needed for experimental tests. But small-scale machine learning systems are not able to use all available data, which is where the ExCAPE project comes in – it is developing machine learning algorithms that will be capable of handling complex inputs and huge pharmaceutical Big Data sets at industrial scales.

However, the supercomputers that ExCAPE is developing for – exascale supercomputers – are still under development and a race is on around the world to construct the first one. Today’s highest performers are petaflop computers, capable of 1,000,000,000,000,000 (one million billion) calculations per second, and an exascale computer will be one thousand times more. Put another way, most consumer laptops operate at gigascale speeds (1 billion calculations per second) – an exascale computer will be a trillion times faster.

The supercomputers developed by the EuroHPC framework will be available to disparate societal groups, such as the public sector, researchers and industries

To bring these ambitious plans to reality, seven European ministers from France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal and Spain signed in March 2017 a declaration to support the next generation of computing and data infrastructures, followed by Belgium, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Switerland between June and October 2017. The cooperation framework, known as EuroHPC (HPC stands for high-performance computing), plans to deploy two exascale supercomputers from 2022.

The overarching goal of EuroHPC is to propel the EU into parity with the other major supercomputing powers, namely the US, China, and Japan. Exascale supercomputers in general will more realistically simulate the processes involved in a lot of challenging scientific themes: from the precision medicine to weather simulations to the fundamental forces of the universe. For example, existing HPC systems, less powerful of the exascale ones, have already enabled European car makers to increase productivity by reducing new vehicle platform development time from an average 60 months to 24 months while greatly improving safety, environmental friendliness, and passenger comfort.

Applying exascale supercomputers and large-scale machine learning to the production of new drugs, as ExCAPE are is preparing us for, could bring breakthroughs to the pharmaceutical industry, signifcantly reducing the costs and time involved in developing new drugs. Currently, the average cost of developing a new drug is €930M and it takes a decade or more to reach the patient.

The €4M ExCAPE project runs until Sept 2018 and involves nine partners and is coordinated by Interuniversitair Micro-electronica Centrum from Belgium. See this slideshow for more information.

IBM and Pfizer to Accelerate Immuno-oncology Research with Watson for Drug Discovery

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Collaboration combines IBM Watson’s cognitive computing capabilities with Pfizer’s scientific knowledge to help scientists generate meaningful insights
IBM Watson Health and Pfizer Inc. today announced a collaboration that will utilize IBM Watson for Drug Discovery to help accelerate Pfizer’s research in immuno-oncology, an approach to cancer treatment that uses the body’s immune system to help fight cancer. Pfizer is one of the first organizations worldwide to deploy Watson for Drug Discovery, and the first to customize the cloud-based cognitive tool – tapping in to Watson’s machine learning, natural language processing, and other cognitive reasoning technologies to support the identification of new drug targets, combination therapies for study, and patient selection strategies in immuno-oncology....

IBM and Pfizer to Accelerate Immuno-oncology Research with Watson for Drug Discovery

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Collaboration combines IBM Watson’s cognitive computing capabilities with Pfizer’s scientific knowledge to help scientists generate meaningful insights
IBM Watson Health and Pfizer Inc. today announced a collaboration that will utilize IBM Watson for Drug Discovery to help accelerate Pfizer’s research in immuno-oncology, an approach to cancer treatment that uses the body’s immune system to help fight cancer. Pfizer is one of the first organizations worldwide to deploy Watson for Drug Discovery, and the first to customize the cloud-based cognitive tool – tapping in to Watson’s machine learning, natural language processing, and other cognitive reasoning technologies to support the identification of new drug targets, combination therapies for study, and patient selection strategies in immuno-oncology....

Jose Cordeiro: "The Future of Technology and the Technology of the Future" | Talks at Google

Abstract:
Forget flying cars and robot butlers. If José Cordeiro has it his way the future will be a far more interesting place. What\'s more, it may be coming sooner than many of us ever imagined.
Bio:
A member of Nasa\'s Singularity University and global think-tank The Millennium Project, Cordeiro is one of an increasing number of researchers encouraging everyone from schoolchildren to business leaders to think big – very big – about the future. Do you want mental powers of calculation that make the most powerful supercomputer of today seem like an abacus? No problem. Do you want to beam your thoughts directly into the minds of others? Technology will provide the means to do so. It will even, Cordeiro proclaims, grant us immortality.
Since abandoning a career in petroleum exploration and financial consulting, Cordeiro has made a name for himself as an in-demand writer, researcher and speaker, along the way building up an impressive CV. As well as his positions in the Singularity University and the Millennium Project, he is involved with more than a dozen organizations and institutions, has appeared in national newspapers in Japan, Korea, the US, France and Brazil, and has shared his ideas about the future at several prestigious conferences including TEDx Rio+20....

Jose Cordeiro: "The Future of Technology and the Technology of the Future" | Talks at Google

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Abstract:
Forget flying cars and robot butlers. If José Cordeiro has it his way the future will be a far more interesting place. What\'s more, it may be coming sooner than many of us ever imagined.
Bio:
A member of Nasa\'s Singularity University and global think-tank The Millennium Project, Cordeiro is one of an increasing number of researchers encouraging everyone from schoolchildren to business leaders to think big – very big – about the future. Do you want mental powers of calculation that make the most powerful supercomputer of today seem like an abacus? No problem. Do you want to beam your thoughts directly into the minds of others? Technology will provide the means to do so. It will even, Cordeiro proclaims, grant us immortality.
Since abandoning a career in petroleum exploration and financial consulting, Cordeiro has made a name for himself as an in-demand writer, researcher and speaker, along the way building up an impressive CV. As well as his positions in the Singularity University and the Millennium Project, he is involved with more than a dozen organizations and institutions, has appeared in national newspapers in Japan, Korea, the US, France and Brazil, and has shared his ideas about the future at several prestigious conferences including TEDx Rio+20....

Brian Greene in To Unweave a Rainbow: Science and the Essence of Being Human

As long ago as the early 19th century, the poet Keats bemoaned the washing away of the world’s beauty and mystery in the wake of natural philosophy’s reductionist insights—its tendency to “unweave a rainbow.” Two centuries later, the tentacles of science have reached far further, wrapping themselves around questions and disciplines once thought beyond the reach of scientific analysis. But like Keats, not everyone is happy. When it comes to the evaluation of human experience—passion to prayer, consciousness to creativity—what can science explain, and what are the limits of its explanatory powers? What is the difference between science and scientism? Are the sciences and the humanities friends or foes? Join an animated discussion on science, reductionism, the mind, the heart, freedom, religion, and the quest for the human difference.
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Brian Greene in To Unweave a Rainbow: Science and the Essence of Being Human

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As long ago as the early 19th century, the poet Keats bemoaned the washing away of the world’s beauty and mystery in the wake of natural philosophy’s reductionist insights—its tendency to “unweave a rainbow.” Two centuries later, the tentacles of science have reached far further, wrapping themselves around questions and disciplines once thought beyond the reach of scientific analysis. But like Keats, not everyone is happy. When it comes to the evaluation of human experience—passion to prayer, consciousness to creativity—what can science explain, and what are the limits of its explanatory powers? What is the difference between science and scientism? Are the sciences and the humanities friends or foes? Join an animated discussion on science, reductionism, the mind, the heart, freedom, religion, and the quest for the human difference.
Original Program Date: June 2, 2016
PARTICIPANTS: Brian Greene, Joanna Kaczorowska, Pablo Lavandera, Miguel Nicolelis, Leon Wieseltier
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Brian Greene Introduction 00:05
Participant Introductions 4:15
Leon Wieseltier: A militant unconstructed humanist 6:40
Will understanding the brain make reality meaningless? 12:42
Different brains, different reality? 17:00
The Extent Which Perception is Involved In Our Understanding of Objectivity 22:30
Is there anything more beyond the physical? 27:34
Biology can no...

Vivek Wadhwa: The Future is Bright, if We're Cautious

Vivek Wadhwa: The Future is Bright, if We're Cautious

Vivek Wadhwa describes the advancements we\'ll have as a society in the next few decades. He also warns that these advancements are going to require ethical considerations.
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Transcript: You know, when I was young I grew up watching Star Trek. I used to dream about tricorders, replicators, these transporters, all these amazing advances we saw. I also imagined I would be using communicators, that I’d have a replicator reproducing all the ice cream and chocolate that I wanted. So I used to imagine a world of amazing things and we had solved the problems of humanity and we were shooting for the stars, and we were exploring new worlds. That\'s how I thought it would be when I grew up. Look at the world I grew up into, poverty, hunger, despair, where we put each other down, where we\'re worried about scarcity running out of resources. It\'s the exact opposite of what I thought we would have when I grew up when I was young. So I, like the rest of the world, became pessimistic. I mean two or three years ago I too was worried about shortages of energy, food, hunger, overpopulation, the world coming apart because of all of the battles we\'re fighting.
If you read my writing right now I\'m the greatest optimist there is. I talk about this being the most innovative decade in human history when we\'ll solve the grand challenges of humanity. I talk about the Star Trek future we\'re headed into. What changed ...

Vivek Wadhwa: The Future is Bright, if We're Cautious

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Vivek Wadhwa describes the advancements we\'ll have as a society in the next few decades. He also warns that these advancements are going to require ethical considerations.
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Transcript: You know, when I was young I grew up watching Star Trek. I used to dream about tricorders, replicators, these transporters, all these amazing advances we saw. I also imagined I would be using communicators, that I’d have a replicator reproducing all the ice cream and chocolate that I wanted. So I used to imagine a world of amazing things and we had solved the problems of humanity and we were shooting for the stars, and we were exploring new worlds. That\'s how I thought it would be when I grew up. Look at the world I grew up into, poverty, hunger, despair, where we put each other down, where we\'re worried about scarcity running out of resources. It\'s the exact opposite of what I thought we would have when I grew up when I was young. So I, like the rest of the world, became pessimistic. I mean two or three years ago I too was worried about shortages of energy, food, hunger, overpopulation, the world coming apart because of all of the battles we\'re fighting.
If you read my writing right now I\'m the greatest optimist there is. I talk about this being the most innovative decade in human history when we\'ll solve the grand challenges of humanity. I talk about the Star Trek future we\'re headed into. What changed ...

Can computers help cure Cancer?

Can computers help cure Cancer?

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Åsmund Flobak explains how computer simulations can help us search through millions of drug combinations to find the right one for each specific Cancer and patient.
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Can computers help cure Cancer?

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Åsmund Flobak explains how computer simulations can help us search through millions of drug combinations to find the right one for each specific Cancer and patient.
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More info at: http://www.ntnu.edu/health/druglogics
Written by Åsmund Flobak, Yngve Sommervoll and Meg Rosenburg
Illustrated by Jorge Cham
Produced and animated by Roser Segura Flor
Narrated by Åsmund Flobak...

Supercomputing with HPE

Supercomputing with HPE

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Supercomputing with HPE

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In the future, a nation’s technology will determine its power. At Hewlett Packard Enterprise, we’re leading the way to discover, innovate and protect. What challenges do you hope to see solved with supercomputing?
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The Human Brain Project - Video Overview

The Human Brain Project - Video Overview

http://www.humanbrainproject.eu/introduction.html
The brain, with its billions of interconnected neurons, is without any doubt the most complex organ in the body and it will be a long time before we understand all its mysteries. The Human Brain Project proposes a completely new approach. The project is integrating everything we know about the brain into computer models and using these models to simulate the actual working of the brain. Ultimately, it will attempt to simulate the complete human brain. The models built by the project will cover all the different levels of brain organisation -- from individual neurons through to the complete cortex. The goal is to bring about a revolution in neuroscience and medicine and to derive new information technologies directly from the architecture of the brain.
The challenges facing the project are huge. Neuroscience alone produces more than 60\'000 scientific papers every year. From this enormous mass of information, the project will have to select and harmonise the data it is going to use -- ensuring that data produced with different methods is fully comparable.
The data feeding the project\'s simulation effort will come from the clinic and from neuroscience experiments. As we try to fit all the information together, we will discover many of the brain\'s fundamental design secrets: the geometry and electrical behaviour of different classes of neurons, the way they connect to form circuits, and the way new functions emerge as more and more neurons connect. It is these principles, translated into mathematics that will drive the projec...

The Human Brain Project - Video Overview

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http://www.humanbrainproject.eu/introduction.html
The brain, with its billions of interconnected neurons, is without any doubt the most complex organ in the body and it will be a long time before we understand all its mysteries. The Human Brain Project proposes a completely new approach. The project is integrating everything we know about the brain into computer models and using these models to simulate the actual working of the brain. Ultimately, it will attempt to simulate the complete human brain. The models built by the project will cover all the different levels of brain organisation -- from individual neurons through to the complete cortex. The goal is to bring about a revolution in neuroscience and medicine and to derive new information technologies directly from the architecture of the brain.
The challenges facing the project are huge. Neuroscience alone produces more than 60\'000 scientific papers every year. From this enormous mass of information, the project will have to select and harmonise the data it is going to use -- ensuring that data produced with different methods is fully comparable.
The data feeding the project\'s simulation effort will come from the clinic and from neuroscience experiments. As we try to fit all the information together, we will discover many of the brain\'s fundamental design secrets: the geometry and electrical behaviour of different classes of neurons, the way they connect to form circuits, and the way new functions emerge as more and more neurons connect. It is these principles, translated into mathematics that will drive the projec...

KAUST’s new supercomputer: Shaheen Cray XC40

KAUST’s new supercomputer: Shaheen Cray XC40

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, has recently acquired a new supercomputer. The Cray XC40, Shaheen II, is 25 times faster than the previous system (Shaheen I) -- which the University has been using since 2009. The new system, weighing around 109 metric tons, arrived in Jeddah on March 15, 2015, carefully packed in 123 crates, aboard a chartered Saudi Airlines 747 from Chicago’s O’Hare international airport. The shipment was then loaded onto seven eighteen-wheeler trucks and caravanned to KAUST....

KAUST’s new supercomputer: Shaheen Cray XC40

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King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, has recently acquired a new supercomputer. The Cray XC40, Shaheen II, is 25 times faster than the previous system (Shaheen I) -- which the University has been using since 2009. The new system, weighing around 109 metric tons, arrived in Jeddah on March 15, 2015, carefully packed in 123 crates, aboard a chartered Saudi Airlines 747 from Chicago’s O’Hare international airport. The shipment was then loaded onto seven eighteen-wheeler trucks and caravanned to KAUST....

SocialEyes – A Deeper Lens Into Our Health

SocialEyes – A Deeper Lens Into Our Health

Discover how SocialEyes, a group of machine learning scientists and clinicians with expertise in eye-care, is using deep learning to extend ophthalmological services to low-resource countries. Learn more about deep learning: http://nvda.ws/1Xn3muT
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SocialEyes – A Deeper Lens Into Our Health

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Discover how SocialEyes, a group of machine learning scientists and clinicians with expertise in eye-care, is using deep learning to extend ophthalmological services to low-resource countries. Learn more about deep learning: http://nvda.ws/1Xn3muT
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Michio Kaku: Consciousness Can be Quantified

Michio Kaku: Consciousness Can be Quantified

Dr. Michio Kaku returns to Big Think studios to discuss his latest book, The Future of the Mind. Here, he explains how the quantifying approach common in physics can be used to model consciousness.
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In the entire universe the two greatest scientific mysteries are first of all the origin of the universe itself. And second of all the origin of intelligence. Believe it or not, sitting on our shoulders is the most complex object that Mother Nature has created in the known universe. You have to go at least 24 trillion miles to the nearest star to find a planet that may have life and may have intelligence. And yet our brain only consumes about 20-30 watts of power and yet it performs calculations better than any large supercomputer. So it\'s a mystery. How is the brain wired up? And if we can figure that out what can we do with it to enhance our mental capabilities.
When you look at the brain and all the parts of the brain they don\'t seem to make any sense at all. The visual part of the brain is way in the back, for example. Why is the brain constructed the way it is? Is this nothing but an accident of evolution? Well one way to look at it is through evolution. That is, the back of the brain is a so-called reptilian brain. The most ancient primitive part of the brain that governs balance, territoriality, mating. ...

Michio Kaku: Consciousness Can be Quantified

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Dr. Michio Kaku returns to Big Think studios to discuss his latest book, The Future of the Mind. Here, he explains how the quantifying approach common in physics can be used to model consciousness.
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In the entire universe the two greatest scientific mysteries are first of all the origin of the universe itself. And second of all the origin of intelligence. Believe it or not, sitting on our shoulders is the most complex object that Mother Nature has created in the known universe. You have to go at least 24 trillion miles to the nearest star to find a planet that may have life and may have intelligence. And yet our brain only consumes about 20-30 watts of power and yet it performs calculations better than any large supercomputer. So it\'s a mystery. How is the brain wired up? And if we can figure that out what can we do with it to enhance our mental capabilities.
When you look at the brain and all the parts of the brain they don\'t seem to make any sense at all. The visual part of the brain is way in the back, for example. Why is the brain constructed the way it is? Is this nothing but an accident of evolution? Well one way to look at it is through evolution. That is, the back of the brain is a so-called reptilian brain. The most ancient primitive part of the brain that governs balance, territoriality, mating. ...

The Exciting New Age of Quantum Computing

The Exciting New Age of Quantum Computing

What does the future hold for computing? We believe our next great technological leap lies in the development of quantum computing. They could solve problems that it takes a conventional computer longer than the lifetime of the universe to solve.
Quantum computers could bring new possibilities, such as advanced drug development, superior military intelligence, greater opportunities for space exploration and enhanced encryption security.
They also present real risks, but scientists are already working, for example, on new forms of encryption that even a quantum computer couldn’t crack.
Experience tells us we should think about the applications and implications of quantum computing, long before they become reality as we strive to ensure a safe future in the exciting, new age of quantum computing.
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The Exciting New Age of Quantum Computing

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What does the future hold for computing? We believe our next great technological leap lies in the development of quantum computing. They could solve problems that it takes a conventional computer longer than the lifetime of the universe to solve.
Quantum computers could bring new possibilities, such as advanced drug development, superior military intelligence, greater opportunities for space exploration and enhanced encryption security.
They also present real risks, but scientists are already working, for example, on new forms of encryption that even a quantum computer couldn’t crack.
Experience tells us we should think about the applications and implications of quantum computing, long before they become reality as we strive to ensure a safe future in the exciting, new age of quantum computing.
This animation was produced by Scriberia (http://www.scriberia.co.uk/) for NQIT (Networked Quantum Information Technologies) (http://www.nqit.ox.ac.uk/)...

Designer babies, the end of diseases, genetically modified humans that never age. Outrageous things that used to be science fiction are suddenly becoming reality. The only thing we know for sure is that things will change irreversibly.
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Forget flying cars and robot butlers. If José Cordeiro has it his way the future will be a far more interesting place. What\'s more, it may be coming sooner than many of us ever imagined.
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A member of Nasa\'s Singularity University and global think-tank The Millennium Project, Cordeiro

As long ago as the early 19th century, the poet Keats bemoaned the washing away of the world’s beauty and mystery in the wake of natural philosophy’s reductionist insights—its tendency to “unweave a rainbow.” Two centuries later, the tentacles of science have reached far further, wrapping themselves

Vivek Wadhwa describes the advancements we\'ll have as a society in the next few decades. He also warns that these advancements are going to require ethical considerations.
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Åsmund Flobak explains how computer simulations can help us search through millions of drug combinations to find the right one for each specific Cancer and patient.
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http://www.humanbrainproject.eu/introduction.html
The brain, with its billions of interconnected neurons, is without any doubt the most complex organ in the body and it will be a long time before we understand all its mysteries. The Human Brain Project proposes a completely new approach. The projec

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, has recently acquired a new supercomputer. The Cray XC40, Shaheen II, is 25 times faster than the previous system (Shaheen I) -- which the University has been using since 2009. The new system, weighing around 109 metric tons, arrived in Jeddah on

Discover how SocialEyes, a group of machine learning scientists and clinicians with expertise in eye-care, is using deep learning to extend ophthalmological services to low-resource countries. Learn more about deep learning: http://nvda.ws/1Xn3muT
For more information about SocialEyes - www.social

Dr. Michio Kaku returns to Big Think studios to discuss his latest book, The Future of the Mind. Here, he explains how the quantifying approach common in physics can be used to model consciousness.
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What does the future hold for computing? We believe our next great technological leap lies in the development of quantum computing. They could solve problems that it takes a conventional computer longer than the lifetime of the universe to solve.
Quantum computers could bring new possibilities, suc

Scientists have for the first time determined, at atomic-scale resolution, the 3-D structure of a protein complex that provides the ultrafast trigger for chemicals messages sent between nerve cells in our brains. The discovery, which provides a new understanding of the molecular machinery driving br

Google\'s chief Director of engineering, Ray Kurzweil, has said that humans will achieve immortality by the year 2029 when they can enable the creation of nanobots that swim through our bloodstream fighting disease.
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Nearly every other year the transistors that power silicon computer chip shrink in size by half and double in performance, enabling our devices to become more mobile and accessible. But what happens when these components can\'t get any smaller? George Tulevski researches the unseen and untapped worl

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Meet the \"ems\" -- machines that emulate human brains and can think, feel and work just like the brains they\'re copied from. Economist and social scientist Robin Hanson describes a possible future when ems take over the global economy, running on superfast computers and copying themselves to multitas